Drugs: Misuse

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of children under the age of 11 years in England have a parent who has had contact with a drug service, as recorded by Drug Action Team statistics in  (a) Nottinghamshire and  (b) England.

Dawn Primarolo: The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) collects data from drug services about clients in structured drug treatment and the treatment they receive, this includes whether the client being treated is a parent of a child aged 16 or under or is living with a child aged 16 or under.
	The number of clients in Nottinghamshire, in structured drug treatment in 2007-08, who are parents of a child aged 16 or under, or who are living with a child aged 16 or under is given in the following table, along with the total number of such clients for the whole of England. However, these are relatively new data items, whose collection started in April 2006, and as such are not as complete as other NDTMS data, therefore the following figures must be treated as indicative only.
	
		
			   Nottinghamshire  England 
			 Clients who are parents 1,386 62,658 
			 Clients who are living with children 569 62,129 
		
	
	It is important to note that:
	clients who are parents of children aged 16 or under may not be currently living with their child, i.e. the child may be living with the client's partner, living with other family member or be in care;
	clients who are living with a child may not be the child's parent; and
	it is possible that there is overlap between these two groups.
	Additionally, Nottinghamshire County Drug and Alcohol Action Team recently published a needs assessment on young people and drug treatment, estimating there to be 2,424 children and young people with parents in drug treatment during 2006-07 and up to 22,000 children and young people with parents with problematic alcohol use. A copy of the needs assessment has been placed in the Library. These are local estimates, not verified National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) data.
	Following the focus on drug-using parents in the new drug strategy "Drugs: protecting families and communities" (2008), published by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, the NTA will be working with local drugs partnerships to improve the services available to parents who misuse drugs. Partnerships will receive local information on drug treatment clients who are parents, which they will be able to use in their treatment planning to help improve local service provision to this client group.

General Practitioners: Pharmacy

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of GP practices in each primary care trust area are allowed to dispense medicines.

Phil Hope: The information is in the following table.
	
		
			  Primary Care Trust (PCT)  Dispensing practices  Proportion of dispensing practices (percentage) 
			 Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT 0 0 
			 Barking and Dagenham PCT 0 0 
			 Barnet PCT 0 0 
			 Barnsley PCT 5 13 
			 Bassetlaw PCT 4 36 
			 Bath and North East Somerset PCT 6 22 
			 Bedfordshire PCT 8 36 
			 Berkshire East PCT 2 4 
			 Berkshire West PCT 11 21 
			 Bexley Care Trust 0 0 
			 Birmingham East and North PCT 0 0 
			 Blackburn with Darwen PCT 0 0 
			 Blackpool PCT 0 0 
			 Bolton PCT 0 0 
			 Bournemouth and Poole PCT 1 2 
			 Bradford and Airedale PCT 2 3 
			 Brent Teaching PCT 0 0 
			 Brighton and Hove City PCT 0 0 
			 Bristol PCT 0 0 
			 Bromley PCT 0 0 
			 Buckinghamshire PCT 15 26 
			 Bury PCT 0 0 
			 Calderdale PCT 1 3 
			 Cambridgeshire PCT 39 57 
			 Camden PCT 0 0 
			 Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT 7 13 
			 Central Lancashire PCT 2 2 
			 City and Hackney Teaching PCT 0 0 
			 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT 37 54 
			 County Durham PCT 18 27 
			 Coventry Teaching PCT 1 2 
			 Croydon PCT 0 0 
			 Cumbria PCT 15 23 
			 Darlington PCT 2 18 
			 Derby City PCT 0 0 
			 Derbyshire County PCT 23 24 
			 Devon PCT 32 30 
			 Doncaster PCT 4 10 
			 Dorset PCT 27 46 
			 Dudley PCT 0 0 
			 Ealing PCT 0 0 
			 East and North Hertfordshire PCT 11 18 
			 East Lancashire PCT 4 8 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire PCT 16 44 
			 East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT 6 27 
			 Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT 20 19 
			 Enfield PCT 0 0 
			 Gateshead PCT 3 9 
			 Gloucestershire PCT 28 35 
			 Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT 7 27 
			 Greenwich Teaching PCT 0 0 
			 Halton and St Helens PCT 0 0 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 0 0 
			 Hampshire PCT 30 21 
			 Haringey Teaching PCT 0 0 
			 Harrow PCT 0 0 
			 Hartlepool PCT 0 0 
			 Hastings and Rother PCT 9 26 
			 Havering PCT 0 0 
			 Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT 0 0 
			 Herefordshire PCT 10 45 
			 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT 0 0 
			 Hillingdon PCT 0 0 
			 Hounslow PCT 0 0 
			 Hull PCT 1 2 
			 Isle of Wight Healthcare PCT 1 6 
			 Islington PCT 0 0 
			 Kensington and Chelsea PCT 0 0 
			 Kingston PCT 0 0 
			 Kirklees PCT 3 4 
			 Knowsley PCT 0 0 
			 Lambeth PCT 0 0 
			 Leeds PCT 8 8 
			 Leicester City PCT 0 0 
			 Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT 20 24 
			 Lewisham PCT 0 0 
			 Lincolnshire PCT 56 77 
			 Liverpool PCT 0 0 
			 Luton Teaching PCT 1 3 
			 Manchester PCT 0 0 
			 Medway Teaching PCT 5 9 
			 Mid Essex PCT 25 52 
			 Middlesbrough PCT 0 0 
			 Milton Keynes PCT 0 0 
			 Newcastle PCT 0 0 
			 Newham PCT 0 0 
			 Norfolk PCT 59 66 
			 North East Essex PCT 16 40 
			 North East Lincolnshire PCT 5 16 
			 North Lancashire PCT 5 18 
			 North Lincolnshire PCT 8 47 
			 North Somerset PCT 2 9 
			 North Staffordshire PCT 10 30 
			 North Tyneside PCT 1 4 
			 North Yorkshire and York PCT 57 57 
			 Northamptonshire PCT 23 32 
			 Northumberland Care Trust 16 36 
			 Nottingham City PCT 0 0 
			 Nottinghamshire County PCT 15 16 
			 Oldham PCT 0 0 
			 Oxfordshire PCT 17 32 
			 Peterborough PCT 10 32 
			 Plymouth Teaching PCT 1 2 
			 Portsmouth City Teaching PCT 0 0 
			 Redbridge PCT 0 0 
			 Redcar and Cleveland PCT 2 13 
			 Richmond and Twickenham PCT 0 0 
			 Rotherham PCT 4 11 
			 Salford PCT 0 0 
			 Sandwell PCT 0 0 
			 Sefton PCT 0 0 
			 Sheffield PCT 2 2 
			 Shropshire County PCT 19 45 
			 Solihull PCT 0 0 
			 Somerset PCT 19 32 
			 South Birmingham PCT 0 0 
			 South East Essex PCT 2 3 
			 South Gloucestershire PCT 4 14 
			 South Staffordshire PCT 16 18 
			 South Tyneside PCT 0 0 
			 South West Essex PCT 5 7 
			 Southampton City PCT 0 0 
			 Southwark PCT 0 0 
			 Stockport PCT 0 0 
			 Stockton-on-Tees Teaching 1 4 
			 Stoke on Trent PCT 1 2 
			 Suffolk PCT 41 60 
			 Sunderland Teaching PCT 0 0 
			 Surrey PCT 14 10 
			 Sutton and Merton PCT 0 0 
			 Swindon PCT 4 14 
			 Tameside and Glossop PCT 0 0 
			 Telford and Wrekin PCT 1 5 
			 Torbay Care Trust 0 0 
			 Tower Hamlets PCT 0 0 
			 Trafford PCT 0 0 
			 Wakefield District PCT 6 17 
			 Walsall Teaching PCT 1 2 
			 Waltham Forest PCT 0 0 
			 Wandsworth PCT 0 0 
			 Warrington PCT 1 4 
			 Warwickshire PCT 9 25 
			 West Essex PCT 12 32 
			 West Hertfordshire PCT 4 6 
			 West Kent PCT 35 34 
			 West Sussex PCT 16 20 
			 Western Cheshire PCT 8 24 
			 Westminster PCT 0 0 
			 Wiltshire PCT 21 34 
			 Wirral PCT 0 0 
			 Wolverhampton City PCT 0 0 
			 Worcestershire PCT 22 34 
			  Source: Primary Care Trust "Exeter" payment systems (2006-07)